East Tennesseans Talk About Knoxville's Bridges

Knoxville (WVLT) - Now if you travel across one of those 5 bridges receiving a poor rating, the question is should you be concerned?

As Volunteer TV's Allison Hunt reports, these bridges help us all get to and from where we're going, and she talked with some folks who drive across some of the bridges multiple times everyday.

That's what's making some of those drivers Allison spoke with feel so uneasy, despite the fact officials with TDOT and engineers with the city of Knoxville say bridges in our area are safe.

Almost a thousand miles away, the Minneapolis bridge collapse has Poinsettia Byrd thinking about Knoxville.

"I started thinking about how much water was here and how many bridges are here, and I thought about all the people I know that live someplace where they cross a bridge everyday to go home, because they live near the water, so it certainly hit home with me," Byrd said.

And she'll never think of this bridge on Northshore Drive over Ft. Loudon lake she's crossed for 20 years the same.

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